This selection of Rabindranath Tagore's stories exemplifies his remarkable ability to enter the complexities of human relationships. Within seemingly simple plots, Tagore portrays with extraordinary compassion and lyricism the predicament of women in traditional Bengali contexts, moving from the loneliness of an intelligent, Beautiful woman neglected by her husband in the Nobel Laureate's acclaimed novella 'Broken Nest' to the powerlessness of a young girl whose prized possession is taken away in notebook, from the casual abandonment of an orphan in postmaster, to a girl robbed of her childhood in 'The Ghat's Tale.